Not an old one, but the FH16 (M3 RFS) in the previous post was at March railway station in May this year. Reid’s, along with Allelys, were loading five railway carriages for export to New Zealand. Click the picture to see another picture of Reid’s FH16. . .
And this 23 year old Bedford removal van is still working for its living - at Friday Bridge, not far from March.
Anyone know if the Summerhill Steels Seddon Atkinson 400 ? 6 wheeler that used to chug around the Black Country is still about? I haven’t seen it for a year or two?
Did it get chopped?
Here is a couple more:
Cheers
Andy
Passed an S plate 1626 on the M60 coming up to the M61 split on Thursday morning pulling a container, there is also a T plate 1626 with a mini pusher axle,which its had since the weight’s went up in 1983, in the same colours and used to have JM Haulage on the side, maybe they still have. I presume they are working out of T/Park, They also had a 1924 though that disappeared years back. And another Merc seen was an A plate 71/2 tonner at Coventry a couple of Sundays back Then there is that H plate Ford D800 boxvan out of Oldham.
Almost certainly the only 6x2 drop side tipper 270 Gardner powered E Series still operating nationally on a daily basis.
gonzothejaffa1:
spotted this old girl the other week up at stracathro
and yes it still works every day had a good natter with the owner and his lad
Thats Kennedy Transports old 143. They did the Iron Maiden theme on it. The guys from Fife that has it now.
JM Haulage, now thats a name that has shook up the the old memory chip 
I haven’t seen any of their motors for a while but if they are still around I would agree that they would be working out of the container base in Trafford Park.
As far as I can remember JM Hlg; ran about six tractor units, all Mercs; on for OCL & ACT, spot work and daily contract stuff. All the units were in the standard Merc greeny/tourquoise factory colours of the middle eighties, not sure about them having a 1924 though, at the time I worked out of there on ACT, Furness Withey/OOCL & the occasional spot job for OCL, the only flat fronted Merc they had was a 1418 and was driven by an old hand who was in his 70’s and covered the never ending Freightliner shuttles and all the relatively local stuff, about 40mls; radius. The rest of the fleet were second hand “New Generation” 1625/26/28’s and I remember when gross weights changed and JM got the unit with the small wheeled second axle. I think it came from “Foley’s” after a period of contract hire with a tanker company in Liverpool that shipped vegetable oils, “Pura Foods”, between Liverpool, Manchester & Hull and IIRC they were one of the first to put a tri-axle unit onto the job.
There were quite a few owner drivers running out of there who had been in from the opening of the containerbase and I’m sure this is how JM started out and he just kept his fleet small. BTW JM was usually in there everyday whether he was driving or sorting work out for his motors, he always seemed like a good bloke to work for and seemed to let his lads just get on with the job and as long as you did what was asked things were OK No cheap mobile phones in them days.
It definetly wasn’t a job with a high turnover of drivers, I was in there for about 3yrs before moving onto the ACL/Cunard/Incotrans contract out of Seaforth/Felixstowe but the occasional time I saw the JM motors the same lads were always behind the wheel. I might be wrong on some of the details but it does seem a long time ago 
BTW If anyone worked out of the container base in the eighties and remembers any of the Co’s; that worked out of there and maybe have some pics it would be great to catch up, also the container base had a brilliant subsidised canteen think I put on 3 stone when I was there. Soon lost it when I changed contracts.
Just some of the companies I can think of at the moment, Oswald Inghams (orange/red/white), Tommy Brierley’s (red/white & blue/white contract ACT colours) Bensons (think they were red/brown) Stanians (red/blue) still going & Bergens (blue/white) still going, I know there where/are a lot more anyone got any memories?
Good to see the “Iron Maiden” Scania is still about.
It was new to Sommerville transport from Norfolk, who had the art work done.
Hi Bumper
Les Baston’s daughter here with Les sat beside me. Nice to see photos of his truck on here. Just to let you know that he hasn’t had it from new but bought it from Renner Haulage (Belford) in 1984. It is still working almost every day.
I saw an old scania 111 think on a v or w reg on the a2 london end a good few times pulling a tautliner but havent seen it since the london lez came in though
clared1973:
Hi BumperLes Baston’s daughter here with Les sat beside me. Nice to see photos of his truck on here. Just to let you know that he hasn’t had it from new but bought it from Renner Haulage (Belford) in 1984. It is still working almost every day.
just read the article about your dads sed ac 400 in the hertitage commercial mag, nice to see it earning a living,i drove a 401 with a 265 rolls motor in the 90s, it ran day and night and never cooled down between drivers and never let me down, always got me home,sad to say the same cannot be said about what i drive now. 
I spotted Mr Baston and his 401 in Lanchester this morning, hauling steel on a flat trailer. Looks very tidy, better than some new motors
i was driving a b reg volvof12 upto mid 2004,and we also had a d reg 1635 merc powerliner that was working upto mid 2008 
ill have a look for some photos of them
This lorry is still in regular use.
wow,wheres that leyland from,do you have any more pics,that looks well tidy.
vwvanman0:
wow,wheres that leyland from,do you have any more pics,that looks well tidy.
I f you look on Welsh Border tippers on this forum gives more info there.
Saw this last Monday and its still working its an S reg I think
Yeah, its at the front off the queue on the M60 doing 35mph
United forklifts in barking still running a sed ak 401 on a b reg pulling a small low loader will try and get some photos.
wull:
No quite as old as the first one but worth a look anyway
I think its still working.
DC Thomson have a few of these at their Kingsway depot.
I’ll try and take some pics next time im in for the Beano
where’s this?
